Robert A. FARNAN

Robert Farnan is lecturer in Social Science and Development at Chiang Mai University and received a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London in 2016. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Myanmar and Thailand. His ongoing research in International Political Sociology explores the intersection of conflict, security and development, with particular focus on environmental governance, resource extraction, and the politics of infrastructure and logistics in Southeast Asia. He recently completed a Thailand Research Fund project entitled “Infrastructural Violence, Logistical Governance, and Practices of Transparency along the East-West Economic Corridor, Thailand and Myanmar”. Recent publications include : “Indigenous Resistance as Irregular Warfare : the Role of Kachin Forces in SOE and OSS Covert Operations during the Burma Campaign”. Chapter in Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War : Forgotten Fronts. London and New York : Routledge, 2019. & “Urban Resilience and the Neoliberal Subject of Climate Change in Thailand”. Asian Review, 30(2), 2017, pp. 31-55. His CRISEA project, co-authored with Dr. Sally Beckenham, investigates how the global discourse of indigeneity informs practices of environmental conservation along the Salween River in Thailand and Myanmar.

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